Caribbean, 1779, Curaçao, Keulen, Le Rouge, Old Map

An eighteenth-century map of the island of Curaçao by Georges-Louis Le Rouge. La Rouge translated in French and adapted Thomas Jefferys’ 1775 map of the island. Jeffery’s map was based on the Dutch surveys and map by Gerard van Keulen. Van Keulen’s chart, Nieuwe Afteekening van het Eyland Curacao…, first published ca. 1700, was itself based on Arent Roggeveen’s 1675 “Insula Curaçao”. Le Rouge’s version of the map contains an inset Plan of Fort Amsterdam with Santa Anna Bay, and four land-approach profile views of the island. It also shows in great detail relief, roads, settlements, fortifications, plantations, salt pans, and some navigational markings.